The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-12
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He sat down opposite me in an easy
chair, turned up his toes also to the lire,
helped himself 10 thick slice of bread,
and said again:
Cut me some ham. must be oil to
the hills in ten minutes; and it's well to
fortify myself, because | may miss my
dinner to-day"
''Sir! Mr.. Boulder!'
LET me ring for cup and saucer.
There, now 90 on with your breakfast
and / will tell you all about it. l was
led to it entirely by that hard-headed
fellow, David PageP'
"Pagep"
David Page, f. G. S. Hark you!
Three weeks ago Mrs. Boulder came to
me and said, 'Peter!' l replied,
'Susannahr She said. Look ct Jacks
clean shirt She showed me shirt
folded neatly, with its front covered
with red stains and holes and indenta-
tons. 'Mercy!' cried. what's the
cause of thisp' Jack was at school,
round the corner, you know-Tickleby's
day school. 4 wish to show you, Mr..
b. said my old girl, Jacks linen
drawer Followed my wife. Looked
in the drawer. Found it filled up with
stones and dirt. In the drawer below
that, found clay, sand and old shells in
his Sunday jacket. Caused the dirt
instantly to be carried to the dusthole.
Further examined drawers in jack S
room and in the corner of one found a
book entitled, Advanced Textbook Of
Geology, Descriptive and Industrial,
by David Page, +. &. S.
That's what has done It, Peter,
Mrs. B. said. That's the book I've
seen him reading evening after even.
ing He shall read no more of it,
said |. The book is coniiscated. When
Jack came home at dinner time we had
great disturbance"
Here Boulder gasped over his ham,
and / felt painfully nervous Boulder
went on: Jack, said /, you shall
never more look on that book put
it on my own library table; | peeped
into it; read bits of it; read more Of
it; liked it; 1 studied it; l threw my
self heart and soul into it; compre-
hended it; bought hammer"
Here Boulder caught his hammer up
and fourshed it again. He was
evidently stone-mad.
with this hammer, my boy, I break
my way into the treasury of nature. "
Here Boulder brought his hammer
down and smashed nv teacup.
"Ah. good!' he crIed taking frag-
ment up. "a lucky accident! Look
at the crystalline fracture. What's
herep Clay. What makes the clay
crystalline in its fractureP Fire. The
DRY of the igneous rocks. Thickness
of the ponderable crust of the globe,
800 miles. Depth at which most of the
rocks ordinarily found at the surface
would exist in a motion state, say five
and twenty miles. Undercrust OF the
globe, granite. Here's Bit"
My excitable friend took from the
mantlepiece handsome paper-weight
of polished stone.
'Some ass of n man has polished
this fine specimen of primitive rock. !"
With one tap of his hammer, Boulder
broke it in two. Observe" he said,
1.-THE exquisite fracture.
''Exquisite! Confound-"
'Never polish fine specimen. The
biologists, my dear boy, is most par
iicular to show you clean fracture
and nothing else. He breaks a stone,
and takes pains not so much as to dim
with fingers touch the brillance Of
the broken surface. Now fractures
are of various sorts, conchoidal or
e shell like, even, uneven, smooth. splint-
cry, hackley. Only look in this beau
tiful bit of granite at the silvery CLEANS
of the mica and the suety BITS of quartz
speaking the solid pudding of the field
spar. Quartz is of simple minerals
one of the hardest. knock out n lit
tie chip of granite, and you will OBJ
serve that it is impossible to powder
the quartz 10 Il by blows of hammer
on the hearthstone You perceive the
bearthstone breaks, but the quartz
grains remain uncommnuted."
"Mr. Boulder" began family.
was made somewhat weak and hope
less by my cold, or should have met
vigor with vigo.
i'Pardon me, SMITH They remain,
say, uncomminuted. Let me advise
you to be geologist. l am going TO
the hills to-day on AN excursion. Come.
\ Ali you have cold. Well. l will stop
exactly half an houe." Here he pulled
out his watch. Il do want on to share
nv enjoyment l do want TO make you
feel the delight caused by the study Of
geology. / didn't think that should
r.v.off xrhon Il tnruad ouf